The physician in the ICU, ER, and pulmonary medicine department have demanded a meeting about the shortage of respiratory therapists. As the new hospital administrator, the assistant will need to collect several types of information before meeting with the physicians. This includes data on current respiratory therapist staffing levels, budgets to add more staff, job duties of respiratory therapists, and reasons to support adding more therapists like increasing quality of care, patient and physician satisfaction, and reducing staff turnover. The administrator will discuss this information with the board of directors and work to address the shortage by hiring more respiratory therapists.